Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 91% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 12 March 2047 at 01:37.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2047 after 26 days on 10 April 2047 at 10:35.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 583 of Meeus index or 1536 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 18 minutes and it is 22 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2047. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠133° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠161.9°.
1 day since point of perigee on 13 March 2047 at 05:32 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 March 2047 at 11:07 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 363 329 km (225 762 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 463 km (252 564 mi).
6 days after descending node on 8 March 2047 at 01:12 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 20 March 2047 at 13:43 in ♑ Capricorn.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 5 March 2047 at 11:00 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.881° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.782° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 March 2047 at 02:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 26 March 2047 at 11:44 in ♈ Aries the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
